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Good Point!

John B

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Just a quick comment on the rounding up of items like film canisters
before they "run out."  It seems to me that there is no point to
rounding up the film canisters for future use.  We might want them now
but what had made them such a great material is that they are
everywhere.  People could go home and do the same things with stuff they
already had.  If film cans become rare enough to make it difficult to
find, it's time for a new material or our experiments will not be
reproducable at home, which is what I think we're going for.

To those of you currently looking for them, good luck, and to those who
may use them in the future, perhaps it's time to modify the experiments
to match what people currently have.  Just my thoughts.

Woody Sobey
Engineering Communicator
Enginuity, IGMT
Ironbridge, England
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"My answer is that perhaps ASTC or some similar body ought to take the
initiative to round up impending rarities and store them for our use in
the future. "

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